The Marquises, Te Henua Enana.

The Marqusies,
10° South, 149° West. They lie, at about 1 400km from Tahiti.
Called "te henua Enana" the land of the men!
They were first discoverd in 1595, but left alone for a while longer before Captain Cook made some connections with the locals in 1774...
They became french by 1838, very little did the local chefs know what they were signing; tryed to rebel and lost their fight!
The priests that came then were really the firsts to stay, and they did a grand job at converting the islands to Catholisime...Ridding them of their traditional beliefs...That have been lost even since!

Some of which are maybe a good thing, cause they were cannibals here!!!

Like the guide books say, this is not a beach destination, nor are there any fancy Resorts, or much night life, or shopping!

Hight Volcanic Islands that do not have the reef barrior that its Tahitien neighbour have.

Beautiful sceanery, that allways seem to change with the clouds.

Very rich soil, that produce so much fruit: Mangoes, Bananas, oranges, grapefruit, Coconuts, Corosol, Custard-apple, Papaya, Kava, Breadfruit, star-fruit and some more that I dont even know their names! As well as a huge number of seeds for jewerlly, to my greatest joy!!!
In the wild, goat's, pig's and Horses live...Cow's too!
Fish are pletyfull, and its a good thing cause they LOVE their fish here!

They are far from everything, but with the modern world today, there is internet (not on every island or valley)and cell phone's. Yet poeple here do not seem to have been overtaken by it all. Maybe the only thing they have been taken buy are fancy 4x4 toyota pick-up truck's...There are so many cars!
The houses are not fancy, there are hardly any shops to buy cloth (I have seen 2), there is definatly NO fashion victimes here...This is still the land of woman walking around in Pareo's (Sarong), flowers in their hair and monoi (coconut oil with flowers) on their skin!

Life is lived day to day, men going out fishing, or producing Coprah...Its coconuts that they dry and Tahiti turns into oil for exporting...
Woman taking care of the children or the garden, that is their pride!
They are also avide artist's, woman like men!

Our first landing was done on the Island of Ua Huka, for 2 days...To stretch our legs after 35 days at sea!
Where we celabraited our arrival, my fathers birthday passed at sea and met lovelly poeple that gave us lots of frech fruit!
What a delight, we are in the Marquises!